Question

What I am trying to do is read a list from a config file:

import re
from configobj import ConfigObj
config = ConfigObj('food.conf')
meal_list = config['MainConfig']['MealList']

The MealList section in the config looks like Turkey|Hamburger|Chicken etc etc.

After that I need to run each of them through:

for meal in meal_list:
    if re.search( config[meal][ingredients]['Allowlist'], badingredients, re.M|re.I):

Here comes my first problem. How do I join them correctly? Beacuse after this for part, I pass them to a rank function. So how do I join the “allowed” ones into a tuple?
The rank is also defined in the in the config file.

meal_allowed = ('Hamburger', 2),('Chicken', 3),('Turkey', 4)

food = sorted(meal_allowed, key=lambda student: student[1])
food_to_eat = str(food).translate(None, "-[]()'0123456789").replace(" ",      "").replace(",,",",")
print food_to_eat

So in short how do I use .join() and then turn it in to tuples?

Edit

Another example of what i am looking for.

meals = 'hamburger', 'Turkey', 'Chicken'
for meal in meals:
 rank = config[meal][rank]
 if re.search( config[meal][ingredients]['Allowlist'], badingredients, re.M|re.I):
  eatable = meal + meal + rank

eatable should be (‘Hamburger’, 2),(‘Chicken’, 3),(‘Turkey’, 4) format.
Else i cant rank it.

Answer 1

Is this what you want?

meal_allowed = tuple(('Hamburger', 2), ('Chicken', 3), ('Turkey', 4))

Edit:

For each meal:

meals = ['hamburger', 'Turkey', 'Chicken']
for meal in meals:
    rank = config[meal][rank]

You must define what is the rank variable in rank = config[meal][rank]. After this, you may build a list of tuples, like:

eatable = list()
meals = ['hamburger', 'Turkey', 'Chicken']
for meal in meals:
    rank = config[meal][rank]
    if re.search( config[meal][ingredients]['Allowlist'], badingredients, re.M|re.I):
        eatable.append((meal, rank))

print eatable

Anyway, shouldn’t you say “edible” instead of “eatable”? Or they’re both right? ^^